Kulish Digital Hub

Posted by packetmad as Drupal, Website, Wordpress

TECH.kulish.com Migration

Posted by packetmad as Databases, Drupal, MySQL, Scripting, Website, Wordpress, php

As you may have noticed, the site has migrated from Drupal to WordPress.

Please bear with us while we finish implementing all the features of the old site.

Thank You.

6/08 Outage

Posted by packetmad as Databases, Drupal, Linux, MySQL, OS, Website, Wordpress

Apparently we had a power failure today that my UPS wasn’t quick enough to take over for.

Everything is back up and running.

One database was corrupted but we were able restore it from this morning’s backup.
Backups will be more frequent during storm season.

Reduce / LV (ex. /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00)

Posted by packetmad as Linux, OS

1. Boot to systemrescue cd
2. vgscan
3. vgdisplay
4. vgchange -ay VolGroup00
5. e2fsck -f /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
6. resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 xxG
Note: “xxG” is the size in Gigabyte the FS is being reduced to.

7. Repeat step #5
8. lvreduce -LxxG /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
Note: “-LxxG” is the same value as xxG in step #6 in this case.

9. Repeat step #5
10. Remove CD and reboot
11. vgdisplay -v | less
12. vgs
13. lvs
14. Create new LV’s to re-use space

HTC Sync Issue when VMware is Installed

Posted by packetmad as Uncategorized

HTC Sync fails to recognize the phone when a VMware virtual machine is running.

This is because the VMware USB Controller default setting is to “Automatically connect new USB devices” to the virtual machine. When this is done the phone is connected as a drive which does not allow syncing.

To avoid this behavior, just un-check the selection box and reboot the virtual machine.

The casualties of a datacenter?

Posted by packetmad as Uncategorized

So we find ourselves with another word stolen. Another buzz word birthed from the already mangled English language.

I bring you “triage”. Bug Triage (Ars Technica.. GUILTY), Outage Triage, etc. It will become widespread in the IT industry. Watch and wait.

The last time I used the word triage was when I was learning to sort casualties of battle as a medic’s assistant.

Windows Vista Service Pack Problems

Posted by packetmad as OS, Windows

Something went wrong with my gaming PC recently and it started BSODing on a regular basis. During these crashes I managed to lose or corrupt something in Vista.

I went for a clean install after searching a bunch of forum posts, few of which helped.
Most said my memory was suspect, but my GTX260′s fan wasn’t spinning up so I figured that was the problem. Yay for more expensive.

Anyway, the problem with the re-install was applying service packs. What a piece of work this turned out to be.

Drupal Issue

Posted by packetmad as Daemons, Databases, Drupal, Linux, MySQL, OS, Scripting, Website, http, php

We are currently experiencing an issue with editing account information.
The problem is being researched and status will be provided when information is available.

The following sites are affected:

http://tech.kulish.com
http://family.kulish.com
http://www.iowajeep.net
http://www.racebus.org

Blood Bowl and Steam

Posted by packetmad as Uncategorized

Well, Blood Bowl (Games Workshop, Cyanide Studios and Focus Home Interactive) was “released” on Steam November 25th, 2009 in the US. Released being quoted since I am still getting an error when trying to launch it.

“This game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time.”

The only thing that chaps me worse than not getting what I pay for is not getting what I pay for AND not getting any support either.

D4rk Theme Issues

Posted by packetmad as Databases, Drupal, Linux, MySQL, OS, Scripting, Website, php

New Drupal theme issues:

(FIXED)1. Text – Links Too dark. The gray is a couple shades too dark for it’s background color.

(FIXED)2. Text – Black text, in text entry areas, is too dark. (search box)

(FIXED)3. Spacing – Spacing on articles and blocks.
There needs to be a CR between the controls of an article teaser and the title of the next.
In blocks, there needs to be a CR at the end.

(MOSTLY)4. Preview – white text on white background. Mostly fixed. You can now see the body but some fields, like author, still have some white text on white background. Comment preview works fine however.

Building a MySQL Capable Postfix RPM

Posted by packetmad as Daemons, Databases, Linux, MySQL, OS, smtp

Build Environment:
CentOS 5 x86_64
Postfix 2.3.3 Sources
gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)

2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# Get the src
1) wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.3/centosplus/SRPMS/postfix-2.3.3-2.1.centos.mysql_pgsql.src.rpm

# Install the src RPM
2) rpm -i postfix-2.3.3-2.1.centos.mysql_pgsql.src.rpm

# Install some dependencies I didn’t have
3.1) yum install pcre-devel
3.2) yum install rpm-build
3.3) yum install mysql-devel.x86_64 openldap-devel.x86_64 db4-devel.x86_64
3.4) yum install gcc.x86_64

# Edit SPECS; remove postgres support
4.1) cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
4.2) vi postfix.spec and change “%%define PGSQL 1″ to “%define PGSQL 0″
# I didn’t want Postgres support
4.3) “%define MYSQL 1″ was already defined for me